Debts mount as welfare schemes elude Telangana’s tenant farmers

Telangana By Ajay Tomar December 18, 2022 Read the article

Koppula Alivelu, a tenant farmer and widow with three children, cultivates crops on 10 acres of land taken on lease.

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However, seasonal farming is not profitable, and the widow pension of ₹2,000 she receives after her husband’s suicide in 2012, is meagre.

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She has a pending liability of ₹4 lakh for the past two years and is under constant threat from moneylenders and landowners.

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The average debt of a tenant farmer in Telangana is ₹2.7 lakh, 75 percent of which is borrowed from moneylenders.

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Rythu Swarajya Vedika, a Telangana-based farmers’ rights organisation has released a report that claims Telangana has 22 lakh tenant farmers.

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One out of three farmers are tenants, 19 percent are landless while the remaining (81 percent) are marginal landowners.

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77 percent of the farmers suffered crop damage in the past three years but only one percent of them received compensation.

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The government schemes are only for land-owning farmers.

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Only 26 percent of landowners cultivated the land themselves, 25 percent are in cities and one percent, abroad.

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Of the total 261 women tenant farmers surveyed, 22.7 percent are landless and 65 (25 percent) are unmarried.

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Solutions recommended include the strict implementation of the Licensed Cultivators Act, 2011, and Loan Eligibility Cards.

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"The government should identify the tenant farmers, and provide them all entitlements," said Asha Lata of the Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch.

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